I need icedtea & ideatea-bin?

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

I've installed icedtea on my laptop but portage wants to also install icedtea-bin. Is this necessary?

Voltago · Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 5:34 pm Post subject:

Hard to say without some dependency info. Try to run

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

# eselect java-vm list
Available Java Virtual Machines:
[1] icedtea-6 system-vm

# emerge -pvDuNt world
[nomerge ] [masked java app]
[nomerge ] virtual/jre-1.6.0-r1:1.6
[nomerge ] virtual/jdk-1.6.0-r2:1.6
[ebuild N ] dev-java/icedtea-bin-6.1.12.7:6 USE="X alsa cups nsplugin -cjk -doc -examples -source" 0 kB
[ebuild N ] media-libs/jpeg-6b-r9:62 0 kB

Why doesn't the installed dev-java/icedtea-6.1.12.7 satisfy the app's java dep? The app's ebuild says:

DEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.6"

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

Is this normal behavior? I can't imagine that I would need both.

Voltago · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 2:59 pm Post subject:

It seems that you need a working jdk to bootstrap a java source distro, according to this:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444888#c1

Ever thought about simply using oracle-jdk-bin or icedtea-bin?

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

Portage has already compiled and installed icedtea so I don't know why it wants to install icedtea-bin.

Voltago · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 9:29 pm Post subject:

In that case you can shut up portage by using an entry into the package.provided file, see

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

Sure but there must be a "right" way to do this.

Voltago · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 6:11 pm Post subject:

That dependency is most probably there for a reason, and just re-posting your question won't get you the 'right' answer either. I'd browse the bug database if I were you, maybe patch the ebuild and submit it to bugzilla.